Welcome to Apollo!

There are lots of challenges for year 6 students, such as: SATs, it being the last year of primary school and the transition into secondary school. Due to this, we have been learning about the 5 Ways to Well-being. We are learning to take care of ourselves (in lots of different ways) so that we can handle the many different, challenging - but exciting - experiences that this year brings.

Routines 

PE is on Thursday. We run the Daily Mile every day.

Homework is given out on Thursday and due back by the next Tuesday.

Spelling tests are on Fridays.

Have a look at the links below to get involved with learning at home.

Here are some useful links to support with learning at home. 

Spelling and grammar revision:

•This is a really excellent website.  It has useful definitions and self-tests:http://www.cybergrammar.co.uk/

•The English area of the Bitesize website is split into different sections.  The spelling and grammar area has some really useful resources:http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/spelling_grammar

•These revision pages have been put together by Woodlands Junior School to help students with their revision (some of these activities will be too easy but others are suitable):http://primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/interactive/literacy/index.htm

•Skillswise aims to help adults improve their reading, writing and maths skills. It is targeted at Level 1 of the adult Basic Skills Literacy & Numeracy Curriculums.

•Word grammar: http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/topic-group/word-grammar

•Sentence grammar: http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/topic-group/sentence-grammar

•Spelling: http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/topic-group/spelling

• You might like to try some spelling practise on this BBC spelling sitehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/spellits/home_y6flash.shtml

Reading:

•Our Purple Mash account also has free ebooks: https://www.purplemash.com/sch/athelney

•This website has lots of ‘read the passage and then answer the questions’ style activities, which will be really useful practise.  It is an American website, but replicates SATs style questions pretty well: http://mrnussbaum.com/readingpassageindex/

•More questions about texts on this website.  Choose the reading comprehension exercises:http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/

•The English area of the Bitesize website is split into different sections.  The reading area has some useful resources, especially the deduction and finding information section:http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/reading/

•Skillswise aims to help adults improve their reading, writing and maths skills. It is targeted at Level 1 of the adult Basic Skills Literacy & Numeracy Curriculums. Reading:http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/topic-group/reading

Maths:

•Here is a link to the ks2 bitesize area for maths: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/

•Practise your tables with the games and activities on this fun site:http://www.multiplication.com/interactive_games.htm

•Skillswise aims to help adults improve their reading, writing and maths skills. It is targeted at Level 1 of the adult Basic Skills Literacy & Numeracy Curriculumshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/wholenumbers/

•Woodlands Junior School has several fun online interactive activities to help not only improve your mental maths skills, but also to help you with SATs Revision too!

•http://primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/maths/sats/index.html

•Sumdog is a fun website with interactive games .It’s free to join and has some great maths activities to complete: https://www.sumdog.com/